| From Hell It Came | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dan Milner |
| Produced by | Jack Milner |
| Written by | Jack Milner Richard Bernstein |
| Starring | Tod Andrews Tina Carver |
| Music by | Darrell Calker |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists |
| Release date(s) | 1957 |
| Running time | 71 mins. |
| Language | English |
From Hell It Came is a 1957 horror film and science fiction film directed by Dan Milner and written by Jack Milner.[1]
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A South Seas island prince is wrongly convicted of murder and executed by having a knife driven into his heart. The prince is buried in a hollow tree trunk and forgotten about until nuclear radiation reanimates it in the form of the tobonga, a scowling tree stump. The monster escapes from the laboratory and murders several people, including the true murderer (the witch doctor, whom the tobonga pushes down a hill and is impaled on his own crown of shark teeth). The creature cannot be stopped, burned, or trapped. Only when a crack rifle shot drives the knife (which still protrudes from the creature's chest) all the way through its heart it finally dies and sinks into the swamp. A pair of American scientists save the day.
It was released by Allied Artists.Warner Home Video released it on DVD in 2009.[2]
According to Tim Healey, it deserves an honoured place in the canon of the world's worst movies.[3] However, in Leonard Maltin's movie guidebook, the film was rated at 1½ stars (only the second-lowest of seven ratings available), with the comment that "As walking-tree movies go, this is at the top of the list."[4]